Improvement in snap-hooks



0.0.STORLE improvement in Snap-H00 ks. Patented May 2,1871.

Witnesses: I inventor:

tinited smut pew time.

OLE o. srontn, or NORTH CAPE, ASSIGNOR ronrusntn .AND STAMM BROTHERS, OF MILWAUKnnwiisooNsIN.

Letters Patent No. 114,487, dated May 2, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT lN SNAP-HOOKS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

I, OLE O. STORLE, of North Cape, in the county of Racine, in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain Improvements in Snap-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

Nature and Object of the I n'vcntton. My invention is a snap-hook for harness-whiflletrees and for other purposes, with a supporting piece and.

spring so arranged that it cannot be opened without the supporting piece being pressed clear down so as to strike the opening shoulder.

Description of the Drmcingformingpart of this Specificatton. Figure l is a perspective view, and Figure 2 a sectional view.

General Dcscr'iptwn.

when thesupportin g piece is thrown back by the spring it strikes the upper shoulder and closes the hook.

This snap-hook may be made witha. screw on its back 7 side, as shown by the dotted lines, so as to be screwed onto the end of a whifiletree and in that case become a whiffletree-iron, leaving the loop ofi' in which the leather isfastened when it is used as a snap-hook.

The operation of this snap-hook is that when it is to be opened for the purpose of hitching or unhitching it, place the thumb on the supporting piece and press down, and as the end passes down that comes in contact with the movable part of the hook it passes on the curve in the slag in the movable part of the hook, and the hook' cannot be opened till it gets clear down and strikes the lower shoulder, which opens the hook so that anything can be hooked in or taken out.

Claim.

I claim as my invention- A snap-hook with body A, opening and closing hook B, springD, and supporting piece E, when arranged substantially as described.

OLE O. STORLE.

Witnesses:

J. B. SMITH, W. M. Honuon. 

